Joseph Ebert gun early 18th century, made in Czechoslovakia

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Originally Posted by Will M

would be nice to see this pistol in its original flintlock configuration.

Interesting you say that. I recieved this reply from someone who specializes in Ebert guns.


My first impression of the gun is that it was originally a Flintlock (notice the root of the cut off pan still remining below the percussion drum), converted to Percussion, secondly that the lock design does not say to me that it is central Germany but further east. Eugene Heer's book-Der Neue Stockel cites-"Joseph Ebert, Prag (Praha)/CS, ca. 1710-1740. I believe that the "APRAG" means "at Prag". Similarly some early guns are found marked ASUHL which can be read as made "AT SUHL". The engraving is very interesting but I don't think the gun has any connection to India. The engraving may refer to events happening in the late 17th or early 18th Century.

With Best Regards;

Larry B.Schuknecht